Question

Current flows from high to low potential . Here potential means electric pressure or potential means work done to move a positive charge from to a point . What is the meaning of potential here?

Answer 1

Dear student, The concept of electric potential is used to express the effect of an electric field of a source in terms of the location within the electric field. A test charge with twice the quantity of charge would possess twice the potential energy at a given location; yet its electric potential at that location would be the same as any other test charge. A positive test charge would be at a high electric potential when held close to a positive source charge and at a lower electric potential when held further away. In this sense, electric potential becomes simply a property of the location within an electric field. Regards